VERDICT
It’s not much faster than the RTX 3070, but the 3070
Ti comfortably handles ray tracing at 2,560 x 1,440 and
confidently beats the Radeon RX 6700 XT. If only you
could buy it for a reasonable price.RAY OF LIGHT
+ Confidently
outperforms
Radeon RX
6700 XT
+^ Ray tracing at
2,560 x 1,
with DLSS
+ Resizable BAR
supportRAY OF DEATH-^ Not much quicker
than RTX 3070
- Only available
for inflated
prices on eBay
2,560 x 1,440 – a great result for a £529 card if you could
actually buy it at that price.
Enabling High ray tracing on the less demanding Metro
Exodus also showed the 3070 Ti in a good light (ho ho!),
with its average of 68fps at 2,560 x 1,440 being 21fps
ahead of the Radeon RX 6700 XT – add DLSS and this
goes up to 76fps with a 44fps 99th percentile.Conclusion
While the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti isn’t much quicker than the
standard RTX 3070, it would easily justify its £60 premium
at normal retail pricing, and it generally carves out a very
comfortable lead over the Radeon RX 6700 XT – it isn’t
even far behind the AMD chip in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,
which is an AMD stronghold.
The problem, of course, is that it isn’t available at retail
pricing, with cards going for around £1,100 on eBay.
That’s a bit of a problem when the Radeon RX 6700 XT is
available at retail, and while it’s overpriced compared with
normal pricing, you can pick up one for £750 inc VAT from
overclockers.co.uk
At standard pricing, the RTX 3070 Ti would be the
obvious choice, being much quicker than the Radeon for an
extra £100. In the current climate, though, you simply can’t
justify spending an extra £350 for the RTX 3070 Ti. It might
be a fair bit faster, but it’s not £350 faster. If you want a mid-
range GPU at the moment, your best bet is to either wait out
the stock problems, or to pick up a Radeon RX 6700 XT. It
can’t handle ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077, but it holds up
well in our other tests for a much more reasonable price.
BEN HARDWIDGEthe 3070 Ti adds 6fps to the 3070’s average frame rate in
Metro Exodus at Ultra settings, but it’s still 15fps off the RTX
3080 with its GA102 GPU. Its 85fps average in this game is
a great result, being a good 12fps ahead of AMD’s Radeon
RX 6700 XT.
The RTX 3070 Ti also confidently beats the Radeon RX
6700 XT by 12fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at this resolution
and Ultra settings, with a decent 99th percentile result of
49fps. The 3070 Ti also excelled in Doom Eternal, clocking
up a superb average of 300fps at 2,560 x 1,440, with a
192fps 99th percentile result – easily fast enough to run
high-speed titles in sync with a 144Hz monitor. The 3070 Ti
can also comfortably play this game at 4K, with its 159fps
average beating the Radeon RX 6700 XT by 30fps.
Where the AMD GPU fights back is in Assassin’s Creed
Valhalla, but not by a huge amount – the AMD GPU is
generally only around 3fps in front of the Nvidia card, and
the latter even beats it at 4K. This game also responds well
to enabling Resizable BAR if your motherboard supports
it, adding another 5-6fps to the 3070 Ti’s frame rates at
2,560 x 1,440.
Where the RTX 3070 Ti really rinses the Radeon RX 6700
XT, however, is when you enable ray tracing. The Radeon
can’t even play this game at 1,920 x 1,080 with Medium ray
tracing at 1,920 x 1,080, dropping right down to 25fps, but
the 3070 Ti comfortably averages 57fps with a 49fps 99th
percentile result at these settings. If you enable DLSS, it will
even average 68fps with a 55fps 99th percentile result at